Example Sentences

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In a fuguelike scene, Edith is “on fire and still alive, when I knew I would see the other side, and you opened the mask. Behind it, appalling, extracting endlessness.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021

But do Carol’s fuguelike depression, Anna’s psychosis and Bonnie’s clenched anhedonia really share DNA?

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

John Coltrane exhibits the fuguelike concentration that his music demands, just as Erroll Garner’s permanent smile and bouncing fingers underscore his music’s elegant playfulness.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2018

And before you know it “Transcription” has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

Essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad, fuguelike repetition.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez